Auger-handle



(No Model) v L.'E. PAGE 82 O. W. ANDREWS.

' AUGER HANDLE.

No. 416,420. Patented Dec.'3-, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEWIS E. PAGE AND CHARLES W. ANDREWS, OF ALLENTOWN, NEW YORK.

AUGER-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,420, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed August 2, 1888. Serial No. 281,834. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

7 Be it known that we, LEWIS E. PAGE and CHARLES W. ANDREWS, citizens of the United States, residing at Allentown, county of Allegany, and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Auger-Handles; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention.

Our invention consists of an improved auger-handle, the mechanism being so arranged as to hold angers or bits of any size straight and firm in the handle by a combined wedge, screw, and lever power, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of our new and improved auger-handle. Fig. 2 is a similar view, partly in section, showing the interior mechanism. Fig. 3 is a transverse longitudinal sectional view taken on line 00 ac of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a detail view of the plate H, hereinafter described.

The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts'in all the figures.

Referring to the several parts by letter, the metal frame of the handle is flat on both sides of its middle part A and terminates in the long round opposite sockets A A. The upper part of the middle frame A curves up in an oval form or concave A having on top the central collar or turret B, formed with an internal screw-thread b.

In the handle A are pivoted near their centers on transverse screw-pivotsE E the semicircular clamps D D, the lower ends or jaws of which are formed on their inner faces with a series of teeth D.

Between the clamps D is formed in the handle A the stationary clamp-socket F, the inner faces of which are inclined, as shown.

0 indicates the clamping screw, which works through the threaded turret B, having the plain conical lower inner end 0.

The angers or bits are placed in the handle, and as the faces of the shank-socket Fare inclined, the space between them being wedgeshaped, they will fit any-sized augershank. The clamping-screw O is then screwed down,

side of the stationary socket-piece F, it will be seen that these stationary sockets relieve the pivoted clamps from the twisting strain which would otherwise fall upon them, and that the screw, wedge, and lever powers combined will hold the auger and bit straight and firmly in place.

H indicates a slotted frame-plate, which is held by screws h h at the bottom of partAof the handle, by removing which and taking out the screw-pivots E E the clamps D D can be readily removed from the handle.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patcut, is

l. The combination of the hollow handle formed with the stationary socket F, having the inclined inner faces and the threaded turret B, the semicircular clamps centrally pivoted in the handle, and the clamping-screw 0, having the conical lower end, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the hollow handle having the stationary socket F, having the inclined inner faces, the threaded turret B, the screwpivots E E, and the removable frame-plate H, the semicircular clamps centrally pivoted on the screw-pivotsE E, and the clamping-screw C, having the conical lower end, substantially as set forth.

LEWIS E. PAGE. 0. WV. ANDREWS.

Witnesses:

G. M. MAXSON, L. J. CLARK. 

